On October 21 at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, Dr. John E. Kelly III, IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research, hosted a colloquium on “Frontiers of IT,” that focused on four key technologies that will change the world: nanotechnology, exascale processing, big data and analytics, and learning systems.Here are his opening remarks about these
Monday, 31 October 2011
Thursday, 27 October 2011
Healthcare Modeling: What Is or What If?
Posted on 03:30 by Unknown
Editor's note: Guest author Prof. William B. Rouse is Georgia Institute of Technology's Tennenbaum Institute Executive Director, co-chair of the National Academies Healthy America Initiative and member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Much of contemporary analytics focuses on tabulating and portraying characteristics of existing systems, whether they are for energy supply, health
Friday, 21 October 2011
We won an Emmy!
Posted on 14:13 by Unknown
Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on the IBM Research - Almaden Quicksilver Minds blog on Friday, October 21, 2011.
Earlier today it was announced that IBM was presented a unique award. Together with FOX, an IBM Research project born out of Almaden won an Engineering Emmy award for Innovation from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. According to the Academy, by improving
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
The Frontiers of IT
Posted on 07:42 by Unknown
IBM Research envisions a future in which advances in technology will create a new class of systems that will go beyond capacity, speed, and complex analytics, and begin to augment human intelligence, with people as an integral and central part of the system.On October 21, industry experts will gather at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center to explain, debate, and discuss nanotechnology,
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Smart Grids from Bornholm to Zurich
Posted on 02:48 by Unknown
There is no doubt that electric vehicles are coming, but questions remain if the electric grid can sustain the extra load.
Here come the EVs, but are we ready?
On the low end, the Electric Power Research Institute estimates their will be 3.1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2020, but without a sound distribution planning system and broader use of renewable resources, like wind and
Here come the EVs, but are we ready?
On the low end, the Electric Power Research Institute estimates their will be 3.1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2020, but without a sound distribution planning system and broader use of renewable resources, like wind and
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